liamsaunt

chicken stew and biscuits And for my niece who has a cold and wanted soup, butternut squash soup

I'm serving red wine braised short ribs (made them yesterday, they just need to be reheated) with mashed potatoes and roasted carrots. Since I don't eat red meat I am also making a mushroom wellington. It's supposed to -8 here by the evening so we are all looking forward to a hot and comforting meal.

Looks like lots of us have been in the mood for pasta lately! Last night I made spaghetti with Nantucket Bay scallops

Zuni Cafe chicken

This year I received a set of whisks, kitchen shears, a thermoworks time stack, and a deep fat fryer from my brother. We always exchange food-related gifts. My sister gave me a bottle of Verve Cliquot Rose champagne. My parents gave me an assortment of cheeses from a local cheese shop and a $200 gift card to Eataly, my niece and nephew each baked me cookies, and my brother in law gave me a bottle of rose that he knows I like. Surprisingly, my husband did not buy me anything food/kitchen related this year though he did pick out some very nice gifts.

@mm84321 absolutely stunning. I would have loved to have been a guest at your table, We used up bits of things in the fridge to have a sandwich night. Leftover Christmas roast with parmesan, arugula, and truffle butter for my husband Cheddar, bacon, arugula and carmelized onion-apple compote for my sister and me Apple, gouda, bacon, arugula and fig jam for my niece and nephew

spaghetti with clam sauce

Agnolotti with roasted chanterelles and a white truffle that I picked up at Eataly's truffle day on Friday--they were $5/gram cheaper then usual.

I’m one of the only people in the office today so treated myself to one of my favorite breakfasts.

After reading everyone talking about these biscuits, I ordered some on amazon. They were only available in a package of 10 boxes, so I was very hopeful we would like them. Well, everyone was right, they are tasty! I am very happy that I read about this mix because my regular biscuits are dreadful: dense and flat as a pancake. I baked up a box last night and we enjoyed a couple with what started out in my mind as shrimp and grits but morphed into shrimp over creamy polenta.

This is apparently the week of fish sandwiches at my house. Tonight I made a knife and fork scallop sandwich with U10 scallops from Eataly. 3 of them filled the entire (full-sized) roll!

Now I need to know the name of the movie! Fish sandwiches last night. For me, half of this salmon banh mi. I'm taking the other half for lunch today For my husband, warm lobster rolls.

Tonkatsu style chicken and vegetable fried rice

I stopped at Eataly on the walk into work this morning and picked up a caprese sandwich. Tasty.

I made the worst dinner I have had the misfortune to cook in years last night. It was my fault: it was snowing and I did not want to go to the store so I typed the ingredients I had into google and grabbed the first recipe that came up. It was a chicken and kale saute with lemon, parmesan and white wine. It sounded good on paper but ugh...I took photos but had to delete them, I hated it so much. Luckily I had baked up some soft pretzel sticks on a whim that afternoon so that became our "dinner" later with some Game of Thrones. We are rewatching it with my niece and nephew.

chicken and pepper stir fry

Roasted monkfish dijon style from NY Times Cooking, mashed potatoes and spinach. Monday comfort food.

Thai flavored tuna burgers from Fine Cooking, Thai combination fried rice from NY Times (minus the tofu since I am not allowed to eat it). Sugar snap peas.

Roasted swordfish with sun dried tomato butter, toasted fregeola and asparagus My niece hates swordfish so I made her some tuna, rice and smacked cucumbers

ramen bowl with shiitake mushrooms and soft boiled duck egg

In the article it was paired with a standing rib roast. That's what I usually make for the Christmas meat. I don't eat red meat so I spend a lot of time trying out various side dishes in advance, since that's my holiday meal. Last night we had roasted chanterelle mushrooms on a garlic rubbed baguette with gruyere cheese

Last night I tested a parsnip mash and roasted brussel sprout recipe in the latest Food and Wine magazine, thinking it might be a nice addition to Christmas dinner. It was tasty and might make the cut. Topped with U10 scallops.

Wild Florida shrimp in a garlic butter lemon sauce on pasta

prosciutto and burrata salad antipasto board